Meeting Minutes

Approval of the minutes from the Reno meeting
The minutes from the IAAM Dist. IV meeting held during the 2005 Annual Meeting in Reno were distributed. The minutes were approved with the notation that item #10 should read “Scholarship” Chair and not “Nominating” Chair.

DVD Report
Ron Yorita, District IV DVD gave a report, providing information related to the next two District Meetings; 2006 would be held in Boise, ID the first weekend in April with District VII; District VII would host the meeting in 2007 and has a site selection committee formed to make that decision, with the early thoughts of meeting in Las Vegas; Ron noted that it is possible that District VI would re-join District’s IV and VII in 2007, but would be discussed by the DVP’s at the national conference this year in Washington, DC

Financial Report
Financial Report was tabled until Debbie returned from making the Boise presentation to District VII

Scholarship Report
Laura Niles is the current Scholarship Committee Representative; Laura informed the district that a 2 year scholarship was awarded to Brian Joerg of Portland Metro (you might want to confirm his facility, as I may have not got it down correctly); Laura said that new Oglebay student applicants would be reviewed next January; Laura is presently looking at awarding the Michael Kobluk Scholarship to the Senior Executive Symposium this spring

Nominating Committee Report
Kevin Twohig and John Christenson are the current Committee Representatives; Kevin noted that he had talked with the current officers of District IV and everyone was committing to serve another year for District IV, with the exception of Laura Niles who has resigned and brought in Lori Kramer of the Portland Center to serve on District IV’s Scholarship Committee; Kevin asked the members attending the meeting if they would accept the full slate of officers as stated and the membership approved it

Newsletter Report
Johnna Boxley is the Communications Representative; Johnna informed the group that the next newsletter would be compiled after Honolulu at the end of the month and available in early May; still looking for facility highlights and other articles from around the district; Ron acknowledged the tremendous job Johnna has been doing on the quality of the newsletter and the consistency

Chapter Meeting Concepts
Dexter King was available to inform us of what headquarters was trying to accomplish with the formation of Chapter Meetings within the districts; he felt that by holding Chapter meetings in Seattle or Portland (as examples), we could strengthen bonds between our members and facilities, which would further strengthen our districts from within; it would also enable facility managers that are not IAAM members in the area to network with IAAM members and potentially see the benefits of becoming IAAM members in that district. Discussion took place related to the creation of Chapter meetings within our District. It was not recommended to host Chapter meetings alongside a District Meeting, as it would take too many out of the office at one time. Operational meetings rather than Chapter meetings may be recommended.

Scholarship Chair Resignation
Laura Niles Resignation – Ron recognized and thanked Laura for all the years of service Laura has put in with the Scholarship Committee; Laura noted that Lori Kramer of the Portland Center would be taking her place

Unfinished Business
Dexter King wanted to encourage the districts to get involved with the “Self Assessment” program being developed for the different type of facilities. Presently, only the “stadium” Self Assessment is available; Dexter wanted everyone to know how secure your information was with DHS with the protective passwords; there is a significant amount of time you have to invest in the assessment, but it gives you access to potential state funds for equipment (cameras, bollards, etc) once your vulnerability is recognized by the assessment; getting involved with the assessment also heightens our (IAAM) profile with the government; presently IAAM membership participation is “poor”. The arena version will be released after April 25th, 2005.

Financial Report

New Business
Duane Morris suggested that we discuss contribution to the Kevin Young Educational Trust. Kevin lost a battle with cancer several months ago. He was an IAAM member and an Oglebay graduate. Duane suggested a $250.00 contribution. Bob Wagoner moved and Laura Niles seconded the motion, which was approved.

IAAM is interested in archiving historical information from the Districts. It is recommended that the District Secretaries serve as the keeper of historical data. Current Secretary will look through existing data to see if we have a list of previous officers.

2006 District Meeting

Meeting adjourned